The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Summary

Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

Genre

SF

Country

USA

Cast

Gugu Mbatha-Raw : Hamilton

David Oyelowo : Kiel

Daniel Brühl : Schmidt

Director

Julius Onah

My Score

“If you go… you and I will survive.
I’m afraid if you don’t …
No one will.”

“Cloverfield” was a unique film. Lots of fans were looking forward to a sequel to this amusing found footage monster film. The sequel “10 Cloverfield lane” came 8 years later. It didn’t feel like this film had anything to do with the initial film. Until the end of the movie. It’s clear this one was situated after the events from “Cloverfield“. And then suddenly this Netflix release pops up from nowhere. “The Cloverfield Paradox” tries to explain why all that shit started to happen in Manhattan. Yep, again it’s about prequel and sequel stuff. And there’s nothing I hate more than prequel and sequel nonsense. It’s obvious this movie tries to connect with the original “Cloverfield” films, as you can clearly see on the movie poster.

That damn particle accelerator.

However, this film is right up my alley. A SciFi horror on board of a sophisticated space station with crew members trying their best to stay alive. I got a soft spot for such movies. The only problem is that they don’t need to defend themselves against cruel and bloodthirsty space aliens. It’s a paradox that causes peculiarities. And they caused it themselves. They are sitting on top of a gigantic particle accelerator that, if it works decently, should provide the earth with unlimited amounts of energy. I didn’t understand how that works at all. And I doubt whether the makers of the film understood it themselves. What happens afterward is hilarious on the one hand, and scary on the other. And it was still hard to grasp what was going on.

Give the arm an applause.

Because the particle accelerator failed to work, they end up in another dimension. Earth is gone and the most absurd events start to happen on board the spaceship Cloverfield. Before they realize it, they find a teleported person behind a panel. An amputated arm is crawling around. Worms disappear and show up somewhere else. And it turns out that the gyro (a kind of compass) has disappeared. And it’s also found again in a not so obvious place. The arm turns out to be very helpful as well. It reminded me of Thing from “The Adams Family” and the severed hand from “Evil Dead II“. Sounds pretty bizarre, doesn’t it?

A film with similar features as its predecessor.

Eventually, I had the same feeling about this film as with “10 Cloverfield Lane“. They both seem to be totally self-contained films that were given a small adjustment at the very last moment in order to be linked to the phenomenon “Cloverfield“. Both the film from 2016 and this one had a different film title initially and were given a variant with the term Cloverfield in it. Was it a panicky decision? They feared in both cases that it might cause a financial hangover? And was the link with the film, with the most original marketing ever used, a way to create a similar curiosity?

“The Cloverfield Paradox” is a paradox itself.

I wasn’t knocked off my feet by “10 Cloverfield lane“. I even think they should have released this follow-up under the title “The God Particle” and omitted any reference to the Cloverfield universe. As a stand-alone film, one could have criticized what the film is, instead of what the film wanted to be. Very bizarre, but the film itself has created a paradox. Despite everything, I was still amused by it.

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I’m Peter.
Born in 1966.
And living in Belgium.
I’ve been married to Veronika for 10 years already.
And together we have two lovely kids , Karolien and Filip.
And guess what ….. I’m a big movie-fan. Who could have guessed that!
As long as I can remember I’ve been fascinated by the medium film. And the number of movies I’ve seen till now, is even unknown to me.